THE ANTIRRHINUM. 



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Chrysanthemum-Flowered Anemones. 



(These are attractive double flowers, and well worthy of cultivation.) 



Eose de Nice, rose. 

 Eose tendre, pink. 



Gloire de Nantes, blue. 

 Etoile de Bretagne, lilac rose. 



Eosine, rose shaded. 

 Meteor, carmine and white. 



For garden effect and affording flowers for cutting, A. fulgens, included by botanists 

 with A. hortensis, is extremely valuable, its dazzling scarlet blooms being very effective. 

 The other varieties of A. hortensis, frequently offered as stellata, are also pretty, and may 

 be grown as recommended for the poppy Anemone. 

 They are grown extensively by market gardeners, and 

 the bunches of brilliant flowers find ready sale. 



ANTIEEHINUM. 



Antirrhinum majus, or the common snapdragon, is 

 a very old favourite, and as popular now as ever it was. 

 Deservedly so too, as it is one of those easily-grown 

 border plants that rarely fails to do well in all weather, 

 neither great heat, drought, nor the other extreme pre- 

 venting a good display. Naturally the best results 

 attend high culture, and if spikes for exhibition purposes 

 are desired, intelligent treatment must be accorded. 

 Advanced florists do not attach great importance to 

 this flower, doubtless owing to the ease with which the 

 plants can be grown and new varieties raised ; there- 

 fore the points of a good flower are seldom, if ever, 

 mentioned. According to Glenny's views, and these 

 still hold good, "the plant should be dwarf, the flowers 

 abundant, the mouth wide, and the more the inner surface turns up to hide the tube 

 the better. The tube should be clear and pure if white, and if any other colour must 

 be bright ; and the mouth and all the inner surface should be of a different colour, 

 forming a contrast with the tube. The petal should lap over the indentations, so as 

 not to show them; the texture of the tube should be like wax or enamel; the inside 

 surface which laps over should be velvety. When the flower is striped or spotted, 

 the marking should be well defined in all its variations, and the colour, whatever it 

 may be, dense. The flowers should form spikes of six or seven blooms, close but not in 

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Fig. 142. Antieehtnttm . 



